Predictors of Learner’s Goal Orientation in the Indian KFL Context: A Learner's Background and Scocio Psychological Perspective
Keywords:
Learner-centered curriculum, Multicultural and Multilingual environment, Learning competence, Demographic factors, Motivational learning factor, Socio psychological perspectives, Linguistic backgroundAbstract
Korean language education in India has marked its 56th year this year. With its footprints marking from the year 1971, there has been a remarkable progress in last 50 decades. Starting from a number as few as 3 to a larger number of 300(approx.) Indian students at present learning Korean language all over India, shows the increasing interest of Indians in Korean language and culture. Among some of the pioneer names in India, various institutions such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, Central University of Jharkhand, EFLU Hyderabad, Manipur University are the well know institutions. Various different kinds of Korean language programs for both long-term and short-term courses are conducted in these institutions.
As the very aim of any education marks the first steps of the learning process, it is very vital for us to understand the aims of the learners, as to understand why and how they thought of learning a particular language. It not only gives a prospective for designing learner-centered curriculum, but also helps a teacher to understand the various factors, which result in individual performance and learning processes.
As many of us would believe that learners have certain characteristics, which lead to more or less successful achievements of their aims of learning the language. Every human being has set of factors affecting their process of language learning and hence it is crucial to understand the background of a learner in order to provide him/her with the right tools to learn a language. Indian learners growing up in a multicultural and multilingual environment, have a certain degree of peculiarities in terms of language learning competence. They have various demographic, motivational learning factors and resource factors acting upon them.
Hence, with the same focus this paper tries to identify the wide spectrum of aims of Indian learners in correlation with the socio psychological perspectives pertaining to their personal family and linguistic background. This study is also exploring as to how the multicultural and multi-linguistic background of Indian learners affect their aims and achievements of language learning.
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